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[PATCH] Documentation cherry-pick: Fix cut-and-paste error

From
mike ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Date
Feb 29, 2008, 17:00 UTC
Message-ID
<12043044382624-git-send-email-mike@abacus.co.uk>
From: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Mike Ralphson <mike@abacus.co.uk>
---
 Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt |    6 +++---
 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
index 877ab66..7e59ab4 100644
--- a/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
+++ b/Documentation/git-cherry-pick.txt
@@ -45,9 +45,9 @@ OPTIONS
 	default is not to do `-x` so this option is a no-op.
 
 -m parent-number|--mainline parent-number::
-	Usually you cannot revert a merge because you do not know which
-	side of the merge should be considered the mainline.  This
-	option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
+	Usually you cannot cherry-pick a merge because you do not know
+	which side of the merge should be considered the mainline.
+	This option specifies the parent number (starting from 1) of
 	the mainline and allows cherry-pick to replay the change
 	relative to the specified parent.
 
-- 
1.5.3



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